Yesterday - Loyle Carner

One, one, one

Peace peace peace

Ay, yeah we come in peace peace peace

From the west to the east

North to the south

In the belly of the beast

One, one, one, one

Two, two

Feels like

(It was only yesterday)

That we sit and watch the sky turning heather grey

Black and white watching money leading men astray

Falling in and out of light as the heavens spray

We mix the whiskey with the lemonade

Tryna count the rap that left for

Used to laugh when I said it made my belly ache

My belly ached everyday, yo it never changed

I wasn’t ready for the grave

But I was ready to be paid

Trust I know we’re never getting saved

Twenty four, mixed race

Living twelve years a slave

(It was only yesterday)

My grandfather getting knuckled by the pepper spray

More fire brings the riot like a renegade

Seeing if setting fire to the rain as the letters fade

No doubt I was raised out the south

Tell your ex boyfriend to keep my name out his mouth

I been in and out, to drag the pain out the house

Being brave something proud say my name I’m about

There comes a time

In everyone’s life

When you have to fall in love

Once or twice

It never really feels like

(It was only yesterday)

Back when I thought I’d never touch the motherland

Because my skin’s a different colour to them other man

But still they’re calling me the coloured man

So you can find me in the straight peanut butter jam

Sticky, make a finger snap like a rubber band

We expand like a grand in another hand

Melts like butter in the pan as the others ran

Damn, but me I stuck around, no doubt pull the finger out

Flabber in the ground

Down south know what I’m about just another clown

Red snout running in the mouth of another town

Drown, drown

(It was only yesterday)

When everyone was in the same place

And we were stuck up in that same race

Same face listening to beats with the same taste, waste

But now my beats come from LA

Californ-king of the streets kick it like Pele

You see that dip in the ground its bad soil

It’s LC and Madlib, it’s mad loyal

There comes a time

In everyone’s life

(It's mad loyal)

When you have to fall in love

Once or twice

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